GRE Word List
ROUSING
giving rise to excitement : stirring
The meaning of the word rousing is giving rise to excitement : stirring.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| squabble | a noisy altercation or quarrel usually over petty matters |
| brazen | made of brass |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |